The adviser to the mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol (Ukraine), Petro Andriushchenko, denounced that Russia launched white phosphorus bombs once morest the Azovstal steel plant, one of the last defensive bastions of the city, shortly following the victory of the country in the Eurovision contest.
“Hell has come to earth. To Azovstal, ”said Andriushchenko, in a message from his Telegram account, accompanied by a video with images of artillery fire.
“They used 9M22S incendiary projectiles with thermite layers. The combustion temperature is regarding 2-2.5 thousand degrees Celsius. It is almost impossible to stop the burning,” he noted.
“It’s amazing how our defenders hold up. We are all in irrevocable debt to them, ”he added, in the message, published by the Ukrainian news portal Focus.
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White phosphorous bombs are an incendiary projectile whose contents begin to burn on contact with air. Its indiscriminate range and brutal devastation prohibit its use in populated areas under international law.
The adviser shared images of projectiles where inscriptions might be read referring to the Kalush Orchestra, the winning group of the song contest held on Saturday night in Italy.
⚡️⚡️Urgent! Azovstal is being bombed with phosphorous bombs#UkraineUnderAttack #SaveAzovstal pic.twitter.com/aSGo0b4QCF
– Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 15, 2022
“This is how Russia reacts to our victory,” said the adviser, and accompanied his message with an image of a Russian bomb with the legend “Kalush, as requested”, along with the date of the end of the concert, this Saturday, May 14, according to a translation from the DPA agency.
At the moment there are regarding 1,000 people sheltering in the besieged plant in Azovstal. Attempts to rescue them are proving difficult, and they continue to reject Russian calls for them to surrender.
The advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Anton Gerashchenko, also shared the images of the bombings on his Twitter account and warned regarding the danger of this type of artillery.
